Uma starts a new river

“Uma starts a new river” is a series of reborn mythological paintings about origination,salvation and transformation. Norming and deforming of figures naturally emerge as experimental elements from my painting process.

My source of inspiration comes from fragmented Mongolian folklore I heard, or stories I had never been told. Somehow they found their way to my memory, in other words, my imagination. Maybe I just need those stories so much, that I have to tell them to myself.

By painting them, I want to give material form, back to those forgotten stories, a rebirth. Showing them in Seelab, I dream to find a kind space and celebrate those primordial images coming back to this world.

Now the question is, why do reborn Mongolian ancient myths matter?

It is not about consigning the history of everything the past has brought, nor about making a new lie to hypnotise ourselves. It is about having access to an alternative world though a new river.

This alternative world originates from a lost civilisation protocol, which is not humancentred nor man dominated. There are different ways of being, not only life or death, but existing in-between, existing in the metamorphosis, always staying in the becoming, always changing.

Like the Mongolian heroine or Shaman who can alter her shape and store her soul in others.

The instinctive energy flow of this river has the power to unfold a world which was once real, leading us to where we come from, where time comes from.

A woman come in from star, oil on canvas, 130x160cm, 2020

You look at star | I look at you

A women
come in from star
give brith of her lover

clay, flower, leafs of grass with rain
the boy is made
from life
from beauty
from love

He was not someone's rib
not made to be sacrificed nor betrayed

He is made from
a women
come in from star

How about, now, we generate a different start, a different version of origin?
We come from a tender kindness, after a long trip.
We are not just a extension of an inevitable unmitigated tragedy-the story which has been told too many times.

Uma starts a new river, oil on canvas, 30x40cm; upcycled synthetic hair on foam, 5x70cm; 2020